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Title: Pericles Of Athens And The Birth Of Democracy by Donald Kagan ISBN: 0-684-86395-2 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A worthy book
Comment: This is a good biography of a great man. Kagan not only distills a great deal of information into a very accessable book, he also manages to impart understanding and insight about Pericles and his Athens. This book is valuable to anyone interested in classical Greece. With particular emphasis - anyone contemplating an attack on "The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides would do well to get "Pericles" as a companion. Even if you already have Thucydides under your belt, you will probably gain fresh insight into that famously difficult work through Kagan's lucid exposition.
Rating: 4
Summary: democratic leadership
Comment: An great book for understanding about leadership in ancient Athens. Since Pericles was elected to the position of general once a year he was required to walk a political tightrope. This book will give you a good feel for the difficulties of yearly elections. You will not get great detail for the life of Pericle beyond Plutarch. Fans of leadership, democracy, warfare and international relations this book is a must!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Necessary Adjunct to the Peloponnesian War Series
Comment: In reading Kagan's epochal Peloponnesian War series (if Amazon had a six-star rating that series would deserve it) one is struck by the relative paucity of material present on one of the central characters of that period, Perikles of Athens. While Kagan gives his usual detailed treatment of events, what led up to many of Perikles' attitudes and intellectual precepts is left untreated.
A reader lucky enough to possess this volume will find the time spent in reading it in parallel with the four-volume magnum opus to be well spent. It supplies a view of the great man and his city with a color and richness that truly makes the reader's cup overflow, and might, if treated in this detail in the larger series, have slowed the latter's breakneck pace to a crawl. It is, of course, wonderful as a standalone reference.
Readers unfamiliar with Professor Kagan are missing a real treat. His prose is lean and concise, and its vividness lights the sometimes bland subject material of ancient Greek history with clarity and a contemporary relevance that is always illuminating and occasionally breathtaking. This is not "pop" history, but it is so well-written that it achieves the latter's accessibility without its superfluity. If more ancient history were written this way it would a much more popular subject of study.
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Title: The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan ISBN: 0670032115 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan ISBN: 0801499844 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan ISBN: 0801495563 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge ISBN: 1585674028 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: On the Origins of War : And the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan ISBN: 0385423756 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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